The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-01-21

BROOKLYN, Jan. 0-The opening hymn at
che Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning begins
20, conld speak the matchless WORTH
o, could sound the glorlcs forth
Which In my Saviour sinner
DIR. Talmage explained some Of the prophe-
sizes before giving out the hymn and then
preached on the subject distribution OF Re-
wards taking his text from Isaiah I'LL, IL;
+'He shall divide the spoil with the strong"
DIR. Talmage spoke as follows
My family who saw it with their own ewes
gear before last, tell me hat In the Coliseum
at Rome where prosecutors used to let out the
half-starved lions 10 eat up Christians, there
Is now planted the figure Of the cross. And |
rejoice to know that the upright piece OF wood
Joined to the transverse piece has become the
symbol, not more OF suffering than of victory.
IL is of Christ the Conquerer that my text
speaks As kingly warrior, having subdued
an empire, might divide the palaces, and man
sions, and cities and valleys, and mountains
among his officers so Christ is going to divide
np all the earth, and all the heavens among
his people, and you and will have to take our
share II we are strong in faith and strong In
our Christian loyalty for my text declares 1t:
ale shall divide the spoil with the strong"
The CAPTURE of this round planet for Christ
IN not so much OF job as you might imagine,
when the church takes of its coat and rolls up
fts sleeves for the work. Il WILL There are sixteen
hundred millions Of people now In the world, and
there are four hundred and fifty million
Christians Subtract the four hundred and
1ifty millions, who are Christians, from the sly
teen hundred millions, and there are eleven
hundred and fifty millions left to be Christian
lied Now divide the eleven hundred and fir
hv ba lnu1rel
lions already Christlanzed, and 1t makes only
twenty.h people for each Christian TO bring
10 Christ. Surely when the church gets wide
awake no Christian will be content to take to
heaven less than twenty-five. Why l hope To
take with me at least ten thousand. i know
evangelists that have already gathered fifty
thousand each for the Kingdom. There are ut
least two hundred thousand men In Christen-
dom whose one business IL is TO save Souls.
50 that when tell you all that we need to av-
erage is twenty-five souls rcaped for God In a
lifetime, all idea Of impossibllity vanlshes
from this omnipotent crusade / know OF
Sabbath-school teacher who has spent her life
time in teaching the young, and she has had
i've different classes during all these years,
and she tells me they averaged about seven In
a class, and they were all converted, and five
times seven are thirty-fiye, as near as can
calculate She brought her twenty-five and
had ten to spare. My grandmother brought
her whole family into the kingdom, and her
grandchildren, and, ] hope, all her great
grandchildren, for God remembers prayer
seventy-fve years old as well as though 1t
were n minute: and she took her twenty-five
into the Kingdom and had at least a hundred
90 spare. Besides that the telegraph and tel
cphone will, within few years, put the whole
earth into a compass of ten minutes. Consid-
er this and also that Omnpotence, and
Omnisclence, and omnipresence preside
over all the work of betterment, and
you will take this enterprise of the
worlds redemption out Of the impossi-
bilities into the possibilities, and then out OF
she possibilities into the probabilities, and then
out OF the probabilities into the certalnties.
The building of the Union Pacific Railroad from
ocean TO ocean was q greater undertaking
than the girdling Of the earth with the Gospel,
for the one enterprise depended upon the
human arm while the other depends upon
.Almghtiness.
Do / really mean all the earth will surrender
90 Christi Yes. How about the uninviting
portlonsl WIN Greenland be evangelizedt
The possibility Is that after few more hun
dred brave lives are dashed out among the
icebergs, that great refrigerator, the Polar
region, will be given up TO the walrus and the
bear and that the inhabitants will come down
by invitation into toerabe climates, or those
climates may soften, and, as IL has been
positively demonstrated that the Arctic region
was once n blooming garden ard fruitful
field, those regions may change climate ana
again be a blooming garden and fruitful
field. II is proved beyond controversy by
German and American scientists, that the
Arctic regions were the first portions OF this
world inhabitable; the world hot beyond hui
man endurance those regions were OF course
che first 10 he cool enough for human foot and
human lung. Ii is positively proved that that
Arctic region was a tropical climate Pro.
fessor Ieer OF Zurich says the remains OF
flowers have been found in the Arctic, show
Ing Il was like Mexico for climate, and IL is
found that the Arctic was the mother-reglon
from which all the flowers descended. Pro-
fessor Wallace SAYS the remains OF all styles
OF animal life are found in the Arctic, tnclud-
ing those animals that can live only In warm
climates. Now, that Arctic region which
has been demonstrated by fora, aud FAUNA
and geological argument to have been as
full of vegetation and life as our Florida,
may be turned back to its original bloom and
glory, or IL will be shut up as museum OF
crystals for.curlosliy seekers once in while
20 visit. But Arctic and Antartic In some
shape will belong to the Redcemer's realm.
What about other unproductive OF repulsive
fegionsl All the deserts will be irrigated, the
waters wiz be forced up 10 the great American
desert between here and the Pacific by ma
chinery now known or yet 10 be invented,
and, as Great Salt Lake City has no rain and
could not raise an apple or a bushel OF wheat
an a hundred years without artificial help but
Is now through such means, one great garden,
% all the unproductlve parts OF all the cont
nents will be turned into harvest fields and
orchards.
A half dozen De Lesseps will furnish the
world with all the canals needed, and viii
change the course OF rivers and open new
lakes. and the great Sahara Desert will be cut
up into farms with an astounding yield OF
bushels to the acre. The marsh will be drain
ed OF its waters and cured OF it's malaria.
saw the other day what was for many years
called the Black swamp OF Ohio, its chief
crop chills and fevers, but now, by the tiles
put into the ground TO carry OIL the surplus
moisture, transformed into the richest and